Helping Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

On October 26, 2009, at 2 p.m. (eastern time), in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will present a Web Forum discussion with Miriam Berkman, J.D., M.S.W., and Sherry L. Hamby, Ph.D., on best practices for helping children exposed to domestic violence. Ms. Berkman is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Social Work at the Yale University Child Study Center and coordinator of the Child Development-Community Policing Program’s Domestic Violence Intervention Project. She provides consultation and training regarding children’s experience with violence and effective collaborative approaches to intervention, with a
focus on domestic violence. Dr. Hamby is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Sewanee: The University of the South, studying the methodological and measurement challenges of violence research and cross-cultural issues in measuring and intervening for violence. She is a co-author of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire—the core of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, the source of the most up-to-date and comprehensive statistics on exposure to family violence.

Visit the OVC Web Forum now to submit questions for Ms. Berkman and Dr. Hamby and return on October 26 at 2 p.m. (eastern time) for the live discussion. Learn how to participate beforehand so you are ready for the discussion.

MORE INFORMATION
http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ovcproviderforum/